Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly at a glance
Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly serves about 1,020 people through 118 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI6320311. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.44 ppb from 5.54 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly is 5.54 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.54 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.51 ppb |
How Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly compares
Of the 947 Wisconsin systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.33 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 71 have gone over at some point. Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly's 1.1 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Wisconsin and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share La Crosse County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| La Crosse Waterworks | 53,000 | 1.34 ppb |
| Onalaska Waterworks | 18,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holmen Waterworks | 10,147 | 2.78 ppb |
| West Salem Waterworks | 5,045 | 1.34 ppb |
| Bangor Waterworks | 1,520 | 1.27 ppb |
| Rockland Waterworks | 642 | 1.54 ppb |
| St Joseph San Dist 1 | 503 | 3.43 ppb |
| La Crosse Estates Llc | 351 | 1.94 ppb |
| Town Of Farmington Sanitary District | 275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bostwick Valley Mhp | 240 | 3.14 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; La Crosse, WI may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Shelby Tn Of Wedgewood Vly whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.